Fernando Bryce
Grappling with art creation during the proliferation of mechanical reproduction and media’s rapid conquest of the world, Fernando Bryce’s artwork comments on Mid-century art, highlighting the horrors of the modern age. Bryce’s work retells the history of the 20th century, investigating the power structures created through imagery. Critical of modernization and the ability to reproduce work for the masses, Bryce himself acts like a reproduction machine, recreating movie posters, advertisements, artwork, newspaper reports, magazines, and illustrated books. As his work is routine and cohesive, original works and reproduced images blend together as one. Bryce refers to this as a filter he casts, equating and homogenizing all images. By acting as both a viewer and fabricator of images he is able to read into and thus elucidate eurocentric perspectives and underlying historical violence. His work is very much a critique of propaganda, close reading the function of individual images.
Bryce has displayed work in solo exhibitions internationally at institutions such as Kunsthalle Bremen in Bremen, Germany; Alexander and Bonin in New York, Galerie Barabara Thumm in Berlin, Galeria Lucia de la Puente in Lima, Peru, Museo de Arte de Lima, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, and Malba–Fundación Costantini in …
Grappling with art creation during the proliferation of mechanical reproduction and media’s rapid conquest of the world, Fernando Bryce’s artwork comments on Mid-century art, highlighting the horrors of the modern age. Bryce’s work retells the history of the 20th century, investigating the power structures created through imagery. Critical of modernization and the ability to reproduce work for the masses, Bryce himself acts like a reproduction machine, recreating movie posters, advertisements, artwork, newspaper reports, magazines, and illustrated books. As his work is routine and cohesive, original works and reproduced images blend together as one. Bryce refers to this as a filter he casts, equating and homogenizing all images. By acting as both a viewer and fabricator of images he is able to read into and thus elucidate eurocentric perspectives and underlying historical violence. His work is very much a critique of propaganda, close reading the function of individual images.
Bryce has displayed work in solo exhibitions internationally at institutions such as Kunsthalle Bremen in Bremen, Germany; Alexander and Bonin in New York, Galerie Barabara Thumm in Berlin, Galeria Lucia de la Puente in Lima, Peru, Museo de Arte de Lima, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, and Malba–Fundación Costantini in Buenos Aires. His pieces have also been featured in group shows at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Mana Contemporary in Newark, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland, and Museum Leuven among a number of others. Additionally his work is included in public collections at The Burger Collection in Berlin, Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Tate in London, ARCO Foundation in Madrid, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.